1875. Oct. 11 Cloudy with E. wind. Rose at 5 A.M. and meeting Stone at the house, by appointment went up to the swamps In the little pond hole in front of the engine house Shot found & I pointed two rails (P. Carolina) both of which I shot. Then beat all the upper meadows but without seeing anything with a charge of ammunition 13 Clear and the most perfect day of the season. Thu., at Sunrise 28°; got warm at noon. With Stone took the 8.10 train on the Lowell road and getting off at N. Bedford spent the day in the woods between them and Concord. Our specific object was woodcock but although we beat all the best of the Eastern ground we saw not a feather of game getting an old cock grouse which we flushed late in the P.U. Van Dam meadow found a small flock of larks (S. magna) and chasing them about for some time we succeeded in killing one a fair fall female. Getting into "Halls" about the middle of the afternoon we spent a pleasant hour sitting on the edge of the spring that most delightful little spot, charming at whatever season you may visit it. While here we heard a flock of jay at a distance and Stone essayed